Rolling Papers | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Studio album by | ||||
Released | March 28, 2011 | |||
Studio | Downtown Recording Studios Lotzah Matzah Studios Roc The Mic Studios (New York, New York) I.D. Labs (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) The Treehouse (Los Angeles, California) Circle House Recording Studios (Miami, Florida) | |||
Genre | Hip hop | |||
Length | 57:51 | |||
Label | Rostrum, Atlantic | |||
Producer |
| |||
Wiz Khalifa chronology | ||||
| ||||
Singles from Rolling Papers | ||||
|
“ | It’s an appropriate title. It’s called Rolling Papers, like the papers that you roll, the papers that I roll, the papers that we smoke. But it’s deeper than that too. I thought of this before I even started recording the album and before it was a full idea. It’s not just about the weed thing. It’s bigger than that. My career really took off when I started smoking papers. The second reason I called it Rolling Papers is when I left Warner Bros., I sort of got my ‘rolling papers.’ I got my contract, fucking rolled up, and smoked. And I was able to walk and I was able to leave and I was able to do my thing and I was able to capitalize off that. So that’s another pair of papers that I really needed in my life and days. The third reason why I named it Rolling Papers, I quit writing a long time ago. I stopped physically writing it down or putting it in my BlackBerry or iPhone. I write notes down, but I don’t write whole verses, so it was like saying goodbye to the paper. The paper’s rolling out too. So everything is real natural. The first thing that came to my head is how I really, really feel. I feel like this is my most natural sound. I paid the most attention to this shit when I did it. I was real focused. I was real keyed in on this shit when I was working on it and I didn’t use any paper, except for [the rolling papers].[13] | ” |
Professional ratings | |
---|---|
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [41] |
The A.V. Club | C[42] |
Entertainment Weekly | B+[43] |
NME | 5/10[44] |
Now | 3/5[45] |
Pitchfork Media | 7.2/10[46] |
PopMatters | 2/10[47] |
Rolling Stone | [48] |
Slant Magazine | [49] |
Spin | 6/10[50] |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | 'When I'm Gone' | Cameron Thomaz, Eric Dan, Jeremy Kulousek | Eric Dan, Big Jerm | 4:09 |
2. | 'On My Level' (featuring Too $hort) | Thomaz, Todd Shaw, James Scheffer, Danny Morris | Jim Jonsin | 4:32 |
3. | 'Black and Yellow' | Thomaz, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen | StarGate | 3:37 |
4. | 'Roll Up' | Thomaz, Eriksen, Hermansen | StarGate | 3:47 |
5. | 'Hopes and Dreams' | Thomaz, Brandon Carrier | Brandon Carrier | 3:59 |
6. | 'Wake Up' | Thomaz, Eriksen, Hermansen | StarGate | 3:46 |
7. | 'The Race' | Thomaz, Dan, Kulousek | Eric Dan, Big Jerm | 5:35 |
8. | 'Star of the Show' (featuring Chevy Woods) | Thomaz, Dan, Kevin 'Chevy' Woods | Eric Dan | 4:46 |
9. | 'No Sleep' | Thomaz, Benjamin Levin | Benny Blanco | 3:12 |
10. | 'Get Your Shit' | Thomaz, Dan | Eric Dan | 4:36 |
11. | 'Top Floor' | Thomaz, Warren 'Oak' Felder, Andrew 'Pop' Wansel | Pop & Oak | 3:42 |
12. | 'Fly Solo' | Thomaz, Dan | Eric Dan | 3:20 |
13. | 'Rooftops' (featuring Curren$y) | Thomaz, Shante Franklin, Brandon Green | Bei Maejor | 4:21 |
14. | 'Cameras' | Thomaz, Dan | Eric Dan | 4:29 |
iTunes Store bonus track | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
15. | 'Taylor Gang' (featuring Chevy Woods) | Thomaz, Lexus Lewis, Woods | Lex Luger | 5:35 |
Target deluxe edition (bonus tracks) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
15. | 'Middle of You' (featuring Chevy Woods, Nikkiya & MDMA) | Thomaz, Dan, Nikkiya Brooks, WLPWR, Jason 'MDMA' Boyd, Woods | WLPWR, Hollywood Hot Sauce(co.) | 4:16 |
16. | 'Stoned' | Thomaz, Dan, Eriksen, Hermansen | StarGate | 3:31 |
|
|
Weekly charts[edit]
| Year-end charts[edit]
|
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
---|---|---|
Canada (Music Canada)[84] | Gold | 40,000^ |
United States (RIAA)[85] | 2× Platinum | 2,000,000 |
*sales figures based on certification alone ^shipments figures based on certification alone sales+streaming figures based on certification alone |
Region | Date | Format(s) |
---|---|---|
United Kingdom | March 28, 2011 | CD, digital download |
Canada | March 29, 2011 | |
United States[86][87] | ||
Japan | April 4, 2011 |
|title=
(help)[dead link]|title=
(help); Missing or empty |url=
(help)